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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: dreed on August 09, 2011, 06:14:40 pm

Title: Do red filters still have a place in creating B&W digital photographs?
Post by: dreed on August 09, 2011, 06:14:40 pm

Subject says it all ... but I suppose the same holds true for green and blue too...

Does the impact of light received through a colour based filter make an appreciable difference to the data collected such that the algorithms used by LR, etc, generate better (or worse?) B&W photographs?

Title: Re: Do red filters still have a place in creating B&W digital photographs?
Post by: michael on August 09, 2011, 06:58:25 pm

Using the B&W Mix controls in Lightroom (or similar) is more effective and less hassle. Also, this way you can use more than one filter at the same time, a green and a red for example, something that would be impossible with glass filters on a camera.

Michael